diff --git a/its/plugin/projects/servlet-jsp/src/main/webapp/views/greeting.jsp b/its/plugin/projects/servlet-jsp/src/main/webapp/views/greeting.jsp
index 05f70bb6afe..fbadaf75bd3 100644
--- a/its/plugin/projects/servlet-jsp/src/main/webapp/views/greeting.jsp
+++ b/its/plugin/projects/servlet-jsp/src/main/webapp/views/greeting.jsp
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
 	<e:forHtml value="${param.name}" /> <!-- Compliant: Sanitized with e:forHtml where "e" stands for OWASP Encoder -->
     <h1>${e:forHtml(param.name)}</h1> <!-- Compliant: Sanitized with e:forHtml where "e" stands for OWASP Encoder -->
 
+  <c:if test="true">
+    <b>true</b>
+  </c:if>
 </body>
 
 </html>
diff --git a/java-jsp/pom.xml b/java-jsp/pom.xml
index 97ce5f2fbb9..256a0bea203 100644
--- a/java-jsp/pom.xml
+++ b/java-jsp/pom.xml
@@ -83,6 +83,16 @@
                   <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
                   <version>5.2.3.RELEASE</version>
                 </artifactItem>
+                <artifactItem>
+                  <groupId>javax</groupId>
+                  <artifactId>javaee-web-api</artifactId>
+                  <version>6.0</version>
+                </artifactItem>
+                <artifactItem>
+                  <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
+                  <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
+                  <version>1.2</version>
+                </artifactItem>
               </artifactItems>
               <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/test-jars</outputDirectory>
             </configuration>
diff --git a/java-jsp/src/main/java/org/sonar/java/jsp/Jasper.java b/java-jsp/src/main/java/org/sonar/java/jsp/Jasper.java
index 1bdab1d18b3..e00004c1fd4 100644
--- a/java-jsp/src/main/java/org/sonar/java/jsp/Jasper.java
+++ b/java-jsp/src/main/java/org/sonar/java/jsp/Jasper.java
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+import java.io.StringWriter;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLClassLoader;
@@ -87,9 +89,11 @@ public Collection<GeneratedFile> generateFiles(SensorContext sensorContext, List
         try {
           Path generatedFile = transpileJsp(jsp.path(), uriRoot, classLoader, servletContext, options, runtimeContext);
           generatedJavaFiles.put(generatedFile, new GeneratedFile(generatedFile));
-        } catch (Exception e) {
+        } catch (Exception | LinkageError e) {
           errorTranspiling = true;
-          LOG.debug("Error transpiling " + jsp, e);
+          StringWriter w = new StringWriter();
+          e.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(w));
+          LOG.debug("Error transpiling {}. Error:\n{}", jsp, w.toString());
         }
       }
       if (errorTranspiling) {
diff --git a/java-jsp/src/test/java/org/sonar/java/jsp/JasperTest.java b/java-jsp/src/test/java/org/sonar/java/jsp/JasperTest.java
index e1d69e026e4..a5a4a6bfa44 100644
--- a/java-jsp/src/test/java/org/sonar/java/jsp/JasperTest.java
+++ b/java-jsp/src/test/java/org/sonar/java/jsp/JasperTest.java
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 import org.sonar.api.utils.log.LoggerLevel;
 import org.sonar.java.model.GeneratedFile;
 
+import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
 import static java.util.Collections.emptyList;
 import static java.util.Collections.singletonList;
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
@@ -76,6 +77,8 @@ class JasperTest {
   public LogTester logTester = new LogTester();
   private Path jspFile;
   private final File springJar = Paths.get("target/test-jars/spring-webmvc-5.2.3.RELEASE.jar").toFile();
+  private final File jstlJar = Paths.get("target/test-jars/jstl-1.2.jar").toFile();
+  private final File jee6Jar = Paths.get("target/test-jars/javaee-web-api-6.0.jar").toFile();
 
   @BeforeEach
   void setUp() throws Exception {
@@ -127,6 +130,24 @@ void test_with_classpath() throws Exception {
     assertThat(generatedCode).contains("    org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.UrlTag _jspx_th_spring_005furl_005f0 = new org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.UrlTag();");
   }
 
+
+  @Test
+  void test_with_classpath_jee6_jstl() throws Exception {
+    SensorContextTester ctx = jspContext(
+      "<%@ taglib uri = \"http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core\" prefix = \"c\" %>\n" +
+      "<html>\n" +
+      "<body>\n" +
+      "<h2>Hello World!</h2>\n" +
+      "<c:if test=\"true\">what-if</c:if>\n" +
+      "</body>\n" +
+      "</html>");
+    Collection<GeneratedFile> generatedFiles = new Jasper().generateFiles(ctx, asList(jee6Jar, jstlJar));
+
+    assertThat(generatedFiles).isEmpty();
+    assertThat(logTester.logs(LoggerLevel.DEBUG)).matches(logs -> logs.stream().anyMatch(line ->
+      line.startsWith("Error transpiling src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jsp/test.jsp. Error:\njava.lang.ClassFormatError")));
+  }
+
   @Test
   void test_compilation_without_webinf() throws Exception {
     SensorContext ctx = jspContext(JSP_SOURCE, tempFolder.resolve("test.jsp"));
@@ -144,7 +165,9 @@ void test_exception_handling() throws Exception {
     SensorContextTester ctx = jspContext("<%=");
     Collection<GeneratedFile> inputFiles = new Jasper().generateFiles(ctx, emptyList());
     assertThat(inputFiles).isEmpty();
-    assertThat(logTester.logs(LoggerLevel.DEBUG)).contains("Error transpiling src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jsp/test.jsp");
+    assertThat(logTester.logs(LoggerLevel.DEBUG))
+      .matches(logs -> logs.stream().anyMatch(line ->
+        line.startsWith("Error transpiling src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jsp/test.jsp.")));
     assertThat(logTester.logs(LoggerLevel.WARN)).contains("Some JSP pages failed to transpile. Enable debug log for details.");
   }
 
@@ -235,7 +258,10 @@ void test_failing_tag_compilation() throws Exception {
       stream().collect(Collectors.toMap(GeneratedFile::filename, f -> f));
 
     assertThat(generatedFiles).isEmpty();
-    assertThat(logTester.logs(LoggerLevel.DEBUG)).contains("Error transpiling src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jsp/test.jsp");
+    assertThat(logTester.logs(LoggerLevel.DEBUG))
+      .matches(logs -> logs.stream().anyMatch(line ->
+      line.startsWith("Error transpiling src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jsp/test.jsp. Error:\norg.apache.jasper.JasperException:")));
+
   }
 
   private SensorContextTester jspContext(String jspSource) throws IOException {